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unflatten (1)

Name

unflatten - adjust directed graphs to improve layout aspect ratio

Synopsis

unflatten [-f] [-llen] [-clen ] [ -o outfile ] [ files ]

Description




User Commands                                        UNFLATTEN(1)



NAME
     unflatten  - adjust directed graphs to improve layout aspect
     ratio

SYNOPSIS
     unflatten [-f] [-llen] [-clen ] [ -o outfile ] [ files ]

DESCRIPTION
     unflatten is a preprocessor to dot that is used  to  improve
     the  aspect  ratio  of  graphs having many leaves or discon-
     nected nodes.  The usual layout for such a graph  is  gener-
     ally  very  wide or tall.  unflatten inserts invisible edges
     or adjusts the minlen on edges to improve layout compaction.

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

     -l len
          The minimum length of leaf edges is staggered between 1
          and len (a small integer).

     -f   Enables the staggering of the -l option to fanout nodes
          whose  indegree  and  outdegree  are both 1. This helps
          with structures such as a -> {w x  y  z}  ->  b.   This
          option only works if the -l flag is set.

     -c len
          Form disconnected nodes into chains of up to len nodes.

     -o outfile
          causes the output to be written to the specified  file;
          by default, output is written to stdout.

OPERANDS
     The following operand is supported:

     files   Names  of  files  containing 1 or more graphs in dot
             format.  If no files operand is specified, the stan-
             dard input will be used.

AUTHORS
     Stephen C. North <north@research.att.com>
     Emden R. Gansner <erg@research.att.com>


ATTRIBUTES
     See   attributes(5)   for   descriptions  of  the  following
     attributes:







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User Commands                                        UNFLATTEN(1)



     +---------------+------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
     +---------------+------------------+
     |Availability   | image/graphviz   |
     +---------------+------------------+
     |Stability      | Volatile         |
     +---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
     gc(1), dot(1), acyclic(1), gvpr(1),  gvcolor(1),  ccomps(1),
     tred(1), libgraph(3)



NOTES
     This   software   was   built   from   source  available  at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.   The   original
     community       source       was       downloaded       from
     http://www.graphviz.org/pub/graphviz/sta-
     ble/SOURCES/graphviz-2.28.0.tar.gz

     Further  information about this software can be found on the
     open source community website at http://www.graphviz.org/.

































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